The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mate-core : Depends: atril but it is not going to be installed
Depends: engrampa but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ffmpegthumbnailer-caja but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mate-applets but it is not going to be installed
Depends: eom but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mate-power-manager but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mate-screensaver but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mate-system-monitor but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mate-text-editor but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

┌─[ Wed Apr 18 02:43:33 ]
└─[ @ ~ ]—> sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mate-desktop-environment : Depends: mate-core (= 1.2.2+oneiric) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mate-sensors-applet but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mate-system-tools but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

lika said,in April 21st, 2012 at 9:41 am

It works but i prefer kde

larry said,in December 12th, 2012 at 6:17 am

Does not work for me either. I get this:=

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
mate-core : Depends: atril but it is not going to be installed
Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.